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Fragments of the artwork / Jean Genet ; translated by Charlotte Mandell.
LIBRA PQ2613.E53 F7313 2003
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Van Pelt Library PQ2613.E53 F7313 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Genet, Jean, 1910-1986.
- Series:
- Meridian (Stanford, Calif.)
- Meridian, crossing aesthetics
- Standardized Title:
- Fragments ... et autres textes. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- viii pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 181 pages, 7 unnumbered pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2003.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the French.
- Summary:
- "Fragments of the Artwork" brings together Jean Genet' s critical writings and open letters on art and aesthetic issues. This collection testifies to Genet' s enormous influence on the modern theater, on the development of the novel, and on the representation of crime, sex, gender, and race. In lyrical essays and one candid interview, these works present an untutored, original, defiant Genet, displaying his provocative insights and acuities on a range of topics. Genet wrestles with the athletic genius of Rembrandt, adores the intricate criminal resurrections of Dostoevsky, challenges our easy readings of Brecht, and, in what is one of the most exalting art historical essays ever written, provides us with his detailed personal account of the work and presence of Alberto Giacometti. Altogether these essays comprise a series of engrossing meditations on the central motives of theatricality and art.
- Contents:
- 'adame Miroir
- Letter to Leonor Fini
- Jean Cocteau
- Fragments ...
- Letter to Jean-Jacques Pauvert
- The studio of Alberto Giacometti
- The tightrope walker
- Rembrandt's secret
- What remains of a Rembrandt torn into little squares all the same size and shot down the toilet
- That strange word ...
- Interview with Hubert Fichte
- Chartres Cathedral, a "bird's-eye" view
- "The Brothers Karamazov".
- Notes:
- Publisher's advertisements: [4] p. at end.
- ISBN:
- 0804742863
- 0804742871
- OCLC:
- 50670555
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